Device for cleaning combs.



J. W. HART.

DEVICE FOR CLEANING'COMBS.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 16. |916.

Patented Mar. 20, 1917.

STATES PATENT OFFICE. i

JOHN W. HART, 0F MOBILE, ALABAMA.

DEVICE EOE CLEANING coMEs.

Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 20, 191 '7.

Application filed June 16, 1916. Serial No. 104,065.

To all 'whom t may concern.' Be it known that I, JOHN W. HART, a citizenof the United States, -residing at Mobile, in the county of Mobile andState of Alabama, have invented certain new andv useful Improvements 1nDevices for Cleaning Combs; and I do hereby declare .the following to bea full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as willenable others Skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and usethe same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and totheletters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part ofthis s'pecication. This invention relates to new and useful limprovements in the construction of combs parent during the course ofthe following 30 description. y p

Referring to the accompanying drawing forming a part of thisspecilication, in which like numerals are used to indicate like'partsthroughout the specification and in which:

Figurel is a side elevation of a comb constructed in accordance with myinvention, the cleaning element being removed.

Fig. 2 is a sectional view taken on line 2-2v of F ig. 1, and Fig. 3 isav detail view of a portion of the cleaning-element.

In the drawing, 5 designates the back or f Abody of comb having suitably'constructed teeth 6. The back 5 of the comb is recessed as at 7 toprovide a pocket or retaining chamber for the cleaning element shownmore'particularly in Fig. 3.

As clearly shown in Fig. element comprises aback 9 which is provided onone of its sides with a 'spring member 10 3, the cleaning f whichfrictionally engages one of the side walls of the recess 7 for normallyholding the cleaning element in place therein. 4Teeth 1'1 are formed onthe cleaning element,`these teeth being arranged throughout the lengthof the back 9 and along one edge thereof in such spaced relation witheach other that the space between the teeth of the cleaning element willbe equal to the thickness of the teeth of the comb with which it isemployed, thereby insuring the cleaning of the comb when the cleaningelement is moved along the teeth of the comb during the cleaningoperation thereof.

It will be noted upon referring to the drawings that, when the cleaningelement is adjusted in the pocket in the comb, the outer end of theelement will be flush with the back of the comb andE filling the entirepocket, the struckup portion of the elementl y serving to frictionallyhold the same inplace. While I have shown the preferred form of myinvention, it will, of course, be understood that I reserve the right tomake such changes as I may deem necessary within the scope of the claim.

In the operation ofithe device, it will be seen that the cleaningelement may be readily removed from the comb, the cleaning-teeth 11thereof moved between the teeth ofthe comb with the result that allforeign sub1 stances are removed therefrom. .What I claim to be new is Acomb provided with a pocket, a comb y tooth cleaning element adapted tobe carried by said pocket and having a portion of the upper rear edgethereof bentV laterally and .adapted to engage one wall of saidpocket-and adapted to hold one face of the'element frictionally against theopposite wall of the pocket, the outer-edge of the element being Hushwith the back of the com In testimony whereof I hereunto affix mysignature in presence of two witnesses.

l JOHN w. HART. Y

Witnesses:

J. D. DEWoN'rER, J. C. CAFFEY. Y

